I think the interesting thing about cats,and I've had them as well as dogs ever since I was a child,is that they are just as affectionate and needy for companionship as dogs. Anyone who has one knows their signals but if you don't..they just seem distant. Rootie Kazootie will come up to me and very quietly take his paw and hit me over and over again on the leg until I pick him up. Ferrell will lie down on the floor. To an outsider..that would mean nothing but lying on the floor means pick me up. Once you get into their heads,you can read them like a book.

LOL Some guy on another forum has that for one of his sigs!

Warning to game camera buyers..BUY INFRA-RED FLASH ONLY! It's clear that animals are avoiding the annoying flash-which always scares me when I hike up there at night-and doubtless explains why there are few repeat animal photos. I can see by their tracks that they are skirting the camera, including the Big Foot. When I took photos yesterday afternoon, the ice was just melting slightly in sunny spots, and there was no new jaguar sign. I thought he'd moved on, but this morning there were several new, now frozen, scrape marks right where I'd been photographing yesterday, meaning that the jaguar had visited and scrape-marked his territory right after I left, before the temperatures dropped again. I could see that he was giving me a warning, so I circled the pond to where he'd previously left his scat, sniffing the air to see if he'd scent-marked anywhere close, like the jaguar websites said they did. Sure enough, I became aware of a very strong, pungent odor, almost a skunk-like muskiness, so I followed the smell to a scrape-marked tree a few yards away from the scat. 3-4-09, farm pond, scent-marked tree with jaguar (?) scrape From 2-24-09, Tracks and scat paw-sized claw marks From 2-24-09, Tracks and scat First scrape photographed, 3-2-09 From 2-24-09, Tracks and scat Old frozen scrape, possibly the same one? From 2-24-09, Tracks and scat 3-4-09, new frozen jaguar (?) scrape made yesterday afternoon in the same spot I'd been photographing, before night freeze From 2-24-09, Tracks and scat Several websites said jaguars are unafraid of people, which makes them easy targets for hunters. Another website claimed that Amazon Indians are frequently followed by male jaguars to escort them off their territories. Still other websites said that jaguars seldom bother to mark territories unless there is a boundary dispute or overlapping territories. Perhaps our constant poking around "his" territory is prompting the alleged jaguar to warn us off. The meerkats in Meerkat Manor are always "furiously scent-marking" bushes and rocks to "see-off" trespassers, so he could be warning us to back off. If he is imprinted on humans from being in captivity as a cub, he might see us as rivals, but maybe all jaguars view humans that way. Of course, I was here first. Websites also say that about their second year, male jaguars move on to establish their own territories, which can be up to 500 square miles, depending on food availability, so he might be moving on soon.

I'm wondering now if these actually are the same as what I've been using for years. I use my Salux style cloths daily and do not experience skin layers peeling off . Could it be because I've been doing it for so long I just don't have that much dead skin to slough? My towels also come in varying degrees of coarseness and they soften up over time. They look like the the same material, and that article linked above mentions long ones for your back. I guess I'd need to see them in person to tell for sure. But I always use body wash with the exfoliating towels. I wonder if I didn't, would the results be similar? Perhaps it's because there's no soap involved to break up and disperse the dead skin?